gouvernait
\ɡu.vɛʁ.nɛ\
The verdict
“gouvernait” is uncommon French (frequency #68,320 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,320
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gouverner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gouvernait · gouvernait · French
gouvernait · rank #68,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,320
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gosset
Nearest frequency peer: gosset (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gouvernait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- giffard
giffard
31,685 corpus weight
- gosset
gosset
31,682 corpus weight
- gouvernait
gouvernait
31,681 corpus weight
- gratifier
gratifier
31,680 corpus weight
- groen
groen
31,678 corpus weight
- Guermantes
Guermantes
31,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gouvernait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouvernait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡu.vɛʁ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gouvernait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gouvernait is uncommon French at frequency #68,320 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡu.vɛʁ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gouverner.".
gouvernait has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gouvernait, spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gouverner.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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